The 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll

Americans don’t want war with Iran, don’t like what they see in Europe, and think our species is here to stay.

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And why shouldn’t Americans feel a pull—gravitational? sentimental?—toward the familiar? We know what matters to us, apparently, and we will go to it, support it, marry it. For instance: When it comes to visiting presidential libraries, we prefer our politics—48 percent of Democrats would choose Bill Clinton’s, 55 percent of Republicans Ronald Reagan’s; nobody else comes close, for either group. Few of us are inclined to back a war with Iran if that country were to test a nuclear bomb or attack Israel—but many more would do so if Iran attacked U.S. soil or the U.S. fleet. We have scant interest in most European traditions (save those long summer vacations); nearly a quarter of us said “no thanks” to adopting anything European (though a significant number of men were intrigued by the concept of topless beaches, and an almost identical number of women by the possibility of afternoon siestas). We regard as our “most eligible” single women such standbys as Jennifer Aniston and Halle Berry (and, among 65-and-overs, Betty White) rather than relative newcomers on the cultural radar like Elin Nordegren, Lady Gaga, and Elena Kagan. And, finally, we feel so comfortable as human beings that we can’t really imagine not existing as a species: on the matter of our own possible extinction, neither nuclear war nor global warming nor destruction by asteroid—nothing, in fact—outpolled ... “none of these.” In other words, we’re not planning on going anywhere anytime soon: a familiar, if you will, refrain.

If same-sex couples are allowed, do you think they will DIVORSE AT A HIGHTER RATE THAN HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES, at a lower rate, or do you think they will divorce at the same rate as heterosexual couples?